Australia Beat England in 7th ODI of series, 2013

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in England in 2013. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 1 and 3. The 7th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, England on 17th Sep 2013. Australia holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 7th ONE DAY international match: Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, George Bailey (c), Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Josh Hazlewood, Glenn Maxwell, James Faulkner, M Clarke

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 7th ONE DAY international Match: Stuart Broad (c), Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Jos Buttler (wk),Michael Lumb, Kevin P, Jade Dernbach, Danny Briggs, Alex Hales, Joe Root

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 295 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of S watson who made 90 runs in 45 balls with 12 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls and M Clarke who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

England was needed to score 296 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

England batted well but was unable to chase the target of 296 runs and was only able to make 280 runs in 49.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 15 runs with top contributions from M Lumb who made 80 runs in 100 balls with 5 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 15 runs and series ends at 5-2 in favor of Australia.

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